Half of Canada's status First Nation children live in poverty, according to a new report.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Save the Children Canada used 2006 census data to show just how impoverished indigenous children are.

Canada’s stillbirth rate appears to be rising not because more fetuses are dying spontaneously but because more pregnancies are being terminated due to serious birth defects, researchers are reporting.

A life-sized sculpture of a huge polar bear has been unveiled near the centre of London as part of a bid to rally politicians in Britain and across Europe to back a global trade ban on rugs and other products derived from the iconic Arctic animal — a plan strongly opposed by the Canadian government and Inuit communities that rely on income derived from what they consider a sustainable harvest.

The 150th birthday of Confederation is now less than five years away. Postmedia News offers a special series on how the country should mark the occasion:
The 150th anniversary of Confederation in less than five years will conjure images of parades, fireworks and flag-waving for most Canadians, but a different set of visuals emerges when leaders representing the country’s three main aboriginal groups discuss 2017: the noose around Louis Riel’s neck in 1885; an Inuit mother torn from her children in the 1950s; a decrepit, overcrowded shack at Attawapiskat in 2011.